more iphone tiddbits

• By Alison
• 21 August, 2009
• 2 Comments

I just wanted to go back to the whole iphone topic, and make a point of saying how integral that small piece of technology has become to my life.

I have a saying whenever I need something… “There’s an app for that”.

OK, so it’s not MY saying… but it’s so true! Whenever I think of something that I need to accomplish, I always have a look in the apps store to see if there really IS an app for that.

And if I can’t find the app that i want, I normally find other apps that it occurs to me might be useful too.

I started to use the voice memo to record random thoughts and ideas for blog entries. I did this because it exists. So if it exists, I should be able to find a use for it. I worked out that a good use of the voice memo app would be those times that I talk though ideas in my head, and can’t note them down. Primarily, this is what happens when I am driving or walking.

The fatal flaw with this idea is that I am not in my car too often, and I am hardly likely to walk along talking to my phone like a twat.

This morning while riding in to work on the back of hubby’s scooter I pretty much wrote half a dozen blogs in my head, and then promptly forgot most of them.

I know I forget a lot of thoughts that run through my nonce while riding. It’s as though the helmet is both cathartic and absorbative. I know that the thoughts happen, but they just can’t stay in my head.

I may well have cured the current global economic in my head, cushioned in my helmet with my cheeks squeezed to the front like a champion gurner.

It’s also true that I spend a lot of time riding the scooter singing at the top of my lungs. This isn’t something I’d like to record on my iPhone. It’s not worthy of broadcasting. I am pretty sure that the people stopped in the cars beside me at traffic lights would prefer that they didn’t have to hear it either.

On that note (get it?) my favourite app is my tuner. I spent £20 on a tuner which I don’t love half as much as my £5 iphone one. And by tuner, I mean a device that tells you when you’re in tune playing a particular note. For the flute. I’d say for the piccolo too, but then anyone who’s heard most piccolos play would just laugh. There are jokes that go hand in hand with piccolos and most of them are about tuning and intonation (sorry to the non musical people, I’m just not going to define that word, so google it).

My next favourite app on the iphone has to be ragdoll blaster game, which is such a ridiculous idea, it’s unbelievable how satisfying it actually is to fire small stick figures out of a canon!

The facebook app is one that I can’t live without, as is obvious to anyone on my facebook friends list. And I’m getting quite partial to Twitterfon too. That’s probably not a good thing.

But without fail, the app that I enjoy the most has to be the lolcats app. That really sums me up in one line. Unfortunately!